Re: CHAT: New to list
| From: | Wesley Parish <wes.parish@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, February 12, 2003, 7:49 |
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On Wednesday 12 February 2003 06:23 am, you wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jan 2003 13:57:20 -0500
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> John Cowan <jcowan@...> wrote:
> > The Egyptian name for Egypt was [x0m0], where [0] represents an unknown
> > vowel, traditionally represented as "e" internally and omitted finally.
> > "Chemistry" was originally "Egyptian knowledge".
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> Fascinating. But wasn't there an Egyptian name of Egypt on the Semetic
> m-D-r root? Or am I mistaken in thinking Ancient Egyptian was Semetic?`
Mizraim, best known nowadays as the name of one of the branches of the
Middle-Eastern Jewish community - Mizrahim, the people of Mizraim.
Ancient Egyptian wasn't Semitic as such, it was related though. The name of
the branch it belonged to, is the "Hamitic" languages, and they are mostly
North African. I don't think there were ever any north of the Mediterranean.
Coptic's the child language of the Ancient Egyptian language.
Wesley Parish
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> s.
--
Mau e ki, "He aha te mea nui?"
You ask, "What is the most important thing?"
Maku e ki, "He tangata, he tangata, he tangata."
I reply, "It is people, it is people, it is people."
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